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Scott Jagow

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  • Tonight, the Discovery Channel channel airs a Tribute to Billy Mays to say goodbye to the infomercial king. But honestly, Mays still has a long TV…

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  • Jul 9, 2009

    Bing vs Google

    Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, has been around for about a month now, and well, I'll be. It actually seems to be doing well….

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  • I have a physical reaction when I see a broken guitar. I live by the code of songwriter John Hiatt: "There oughta to be a law, with no bail,…

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  • Jul 9, 2009

    Morning Reading

    A strange collection of items this morning. Among them: a well-known investor compares the stimulus package to a cocktail of Viagra and candy……

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  • Instead of driving, people seem to be running. The Wall Street Journal reports that the unemployed are using their free time to sign up for…

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  • One thing I've noticed lately is that traffic seems lighter. I keep thinking it's my imagination, since I live in LA, but the other day, I…

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  • Jul 9, 2009

    Google and evil

    Kai Ryssdal recently spent some time at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and specifically, he spent an hour interviewing Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There…

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  • Jul 8, 2009

    Inside China

    I spent part of the morning in a Marketplace editorial meeting where the guest speaker was our very own Shanghai correspondent Scott Tong. He's…

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  • Jul 8, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Among the things I've read this morning — looking back on people looking forward to Google's operating system, an editorial by two of the world's…

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  • You might remember about a month ago, I posted something on a federal court case involving AIG. AIG was trying to seize funds from a charitable…

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